ability/capability/capacity/competence.导航词义：能力，才能

1. ability:n. 能力，本领，能耐；专门技能.普通用词，主要用于人，指在智力或体力上能够做某事的实际能力，常后接动词不定式或介词 in/for。

a player of great ability

极有才华的球员

She has the ability to run her father's business.

她有能力经营父亲的企业。

He shows an ability in/for farming.

他显示出农耕方面的才能。

2. capability:n. 能力，才能.尤指完成有难度的事情所需的能力，常后接动词不定式或介词 of，可以复数形式出现。

manufacturing capability

生产能力

She has the capability to handle the work.

她具备处理这项工作的能力。

Mary has the capability of becoming an excellent teacher.

玛丽有能力成为一名出色的教师。

In her opinion, simultaneous translation is beyond his capabilities.

她认为他做不了同声传译。

3. capacity:n. 能力，才能；容纳能力.指人理解或做某事的能力，或容器、房间等的容纳能力，常后接介词 of/for。

a child's capacity for learning

孩子的学习能力

He has a capacity for computers.

他具有操作计算机的能力。

The fuel tank has a capacity of 50 litres.

这个油箱能装50升油。

4. competence:n. 能力，胜任.强调做某事的非凡能力，常后接介词 in。

You should try to maintain your professional competence.

你应当尽力保持自己的专业能力。

We have doubt about his competence in teaching.

我们怀疑他教书的能力。

He demonstrated thorough competence in dealing with these issues.

他在处理这些问题时完全显示出了他的能力。

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1·They do not have the capacity to mill the grain.

他们没有碾磨谷物的能力。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Two water tanks provide a total capacity of 400 litres.

两个水箱的总容量为400升。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Human beings have an infinite capacity for self-deception.

人类自欺的能力是无穷尽的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Our capacity for giving care, love, and attention is limited.

我们给予照顾、爱护和关心的能力是有限的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Spending could outrun the capacity of businesses to produce the goods.

支出可能超过行业生产这些货物的能力。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·Limited resources are restricting our capacity for developing new products.

有限的资源正制约着我们开发新产品的能力。《牛津词典》

7·He had no natural authority and no capacity for imposing his will on others.

他天生没有威信，也没有将其意志强加于他人的能力。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·Too much spending on rearmament would place an insupportable burden on the nation's productive capacity.

过于庞大的重整军备开支会给国家的生产力带来难以承受的负担。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·He has a mind of great capacity.

他的理解能力极强。《新英汉大辞典》

10·She thinks its capacity is limited.

她认为它的容量是有限的。

能力

1·They do not have the capacity to mill the grain.

他们没有碾磨谷物的能力。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Human beings have an infinite capacity for self-deception.

人类自欺的能力是无穷尽的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Our capacity for giving care, love, and attention is limited.

我们给予照顾、爱护和关心的能力是有限的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Spending could outrun the capacity of businesses to produce the goods.

支出可能超过行业生产这些货物的能力。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Limited resources are restricting our capacity for developing new products.

有限的资源正制约着我们开发新产品的能力。《牛津词典》

容量

1·Two water tanks provide a total capacity of 400 litres.

两个水箱的总容量为400升。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·She thinks its capacity is limited.

她认为它的容量是有限的。

3·But is there a point where it reaches capacity?

但是它的容量会不会到达一个临界点呢？

4·This power station's capacity to store energy is large.

这座发电站储存电能的容量很大。

5·You pay for capacity, storage, and bandwidth as you use them.

使用它们时，您需要为容量、存储和带宽付费。

产能

1·Is there a point where it reaches capacity?

它是否会有到达最大产能的时候？

2·Why should they pump loans into capacity expansion?

他们为什么还会用贷款来扩大产能？

3·He has trimmed production over the past three months to 70% capacity from 90% as demand waned.

由于需求减弱，他过去三个月中已将公司的产量从产能的90%削减到70%。

4·Where did all the capacity go?

产能都到哪里去了？

5·It is adding plant capacity, plans to increase its stake in Wuling from about a third to nearly a half and is seeking other partnerships.

它正着手扩大工厂产能，计划将持有的五菱股份从约三分之一增加至近一半，同时也在寻求其他合作机会。

生产力

1·Delta speeded up its plans to cut capacity even before the tentative tie-up was announced.

三角洲甚至在宣布暂定的合并计划前就加紧了其削减生产力的计划。

2·He argues that workers' productivity has fallen in most industries, making it hard to maintain that the shrinkage of finance has seriously sapped Britain's capacity.

他认为大多数产业的工人生产率已经下降，而财政紧缩量比严重的削弱了英国的生产力这个说法很难让人信服。

3·Their reliance on this device was criticised by foreign carriers as a disguised subsidy that maintained excess capacity and postponed overdue consolidation.

它们的这种依赖被国外运输公司批评为维持剩余生产力和延迟合并的虚伪补贴。

4·The economic reverse is opening up spare capacity on a scale that will exert big downward pressure on prices even though the steep fall in the value of the pound has made imports dearer.

经济突变正在开启剩余生产力，其规模足以给物价下调施加很大压力，尽管英镑的价值斗降已经使进口商品更贵了。

5·But it is hard to see how sustained rises in inflation will be generated in the next couple of years, given the amount of spare capacity in the global economy.

鉴于当下全球经济闲置生产力的总量，还很难想象在接下来几年中持续的通胀将会如何产生。

潜力

1·Both diseases are rare, but have a capacity to cause dramatic outbreaks with high fatality.

这两种疾病极为罕见，但有引起剧烈暴发的潜力，且病死率很高。

2·They argue that playing online games can help the player practice their reaction capacity which is good for forming prompt and responsive thinking.

他们认为，玩网络游戏能够帮忙玩家练习他们的反应潜力，这对构成敏捷的反应和思维很有帮忙。

3·This paper takes ChangSha as an example, analyses influence factor of arrange capacity of peasants inhabited area.

以长沙市为例．对影响农村居民地整理潜力的因素进行了深入细致的分析。

4·As consumption among Chinese residents remains low, there is still great room for growth, and the key of boosting consumption capacity is to increase household incomes, according to experts.

中国居民消费虽然依旧很低，对于增长还有很大的空间。专家说，促进消费潜力的重心在于增加居民的收入。

5·Meat production capacity is related to muscle fiber Numbers and growth.

肌肉生长潜力与肌纤维数量和肌纤维生长有关。

资格

1·Words importing persons or parties shall include firms and corporations and any organisation having legal capacity.

凡指当事人或当事方的词，应包括公司、企业及具备法人资格的任何组织。

2·For an agreement to be a valid contract, the contracting parties must have legal capacity to enter into transactions.

协议要变成一份有效的合同，缔约方必需具有参加交易的法定资格。

3·He was sent in a representative capacity.

他是以代表的资格被派去的。

4·So I would argue as a matter of practice in my own life and certainly in a teaching capacity, frankly, I find this much more readable.

所以我要主张，作为在我生命中的实践经验，和教学的资格，真诚地说，我认为这个是更具有可读性的。

5·Words importing persons or parties shall include firms and corporations and any organization having legal capacity.

凡指当事人或当事人各方的词应包括公司和企业以及任何具有法定资格的组织。

能量

1·Perhaps this person has the capacity, authority, or ability to intimidate or bully people, to do something unpleasant or uncomfortable to other people.

也许这个人具有威胁或者恐吓他人、做出让他人感到难受或者不舒服的能量、能力或者权势。

2·Our body is made up of about 70% of water just like our planet and so naturally we should consume enough water to keep our body hydrated and enough to recycle our body's capacity every so often.

与我们居住的星球一样，我们的身体是由大约70%的水份构成的，因此，很自然地我们要摄取足够的水份来保持我们的身体滋润，使身体经常保持充沛的能量。

3·With a jobless rate of 10.2% and oodles of idle capacity, America still faces a bigger threat from deflation than from inflation.

伴随着失业率10.2%和众多的备用能量，美国仍然面对着更大的通货紧缩的威胁而不是通货膨胀。

4·The demonstration used only one particle at a time, but if the particles were used for digital storage, they would increase the capacity and require a tenth of the power of current systems like DVD's.

此项证明一次只运用一个粒子，但是如果粒子用来数字存储，他们能够增加存储能量并只需要DVD能量的十分之一。

5·When you're not well-rested, your body and your mind do not operate at peak capacity.

当你没有休息好的时候，身体和思想都会缺乏能量。

(1)production capacity生产能力；生产力

(1)bearing capacity承载量；结果能力；产仔能力

(1)capacity for…的能力

(1)carrying capacity承载能力；载运容量

(1)large capacity大容量

(1)high capacity大容量